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You’ll come across the products of Detection Technology Oy wherever the world’s most advanced radioscopic equipment is in use.

The ultra-sensitive sensors manufactured by this Finnish company are at the core of the security inspection devices used at airports and border crossings. In hospitals, its sensors can be found in tomography equipment used for scanning cross sections of the body.

Inspection equipment is also expanding into new fields, such as food processing, where an X-ray machine can find, for example, a piece of glass or metal in a packaged food.

Detection Technology employs people in Finland, China and USA

On February 6, 2007, the President of the Republic Ms. Tarja Halonen awarded the Internationalization Award of the President of the Republic to Detection Technology.

The company has research, development and production units in Finland, mass production in China and a marketing unit in the USA. Detection Technology employs 154 people in all. Finnfund has financed the Chinese production unit.

The Internationalization Award

The internationalization award is based on the efforts to enhance the unanimous activity

in international environment and also helping companies to develop and implement new standards of activity. In 2006 the focus was on two issues: penetrating new international companies or internationally already capable companies whose actions also can be see in employment and wellbeing in the area. Detection Technology got the latter award.

 

More information about Detection Technology Oy: www.deetee.com and Finnfund's website or Matti Kerppola, Senior Investment Manager, tel. +358 9 3484 3334, firstname.lastname@finnfund.fi

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